Fair Haven is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 4,979 people and two associated neighborhoods, Fair Haven is the 196th largest community in Michigan.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fair Haven is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fair Haven is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fair Haven who work in management occupations (19.54%), office and administrative support (8.08%), and sales jobs (6.37%). Of important note, Fair Haven is also a town of artists. Fair Haven has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fair Haven’s character. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Fair Haven has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Fair Haven has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fair Haven than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fair Haven may be for you. In Fair Haven, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.57 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Fair Haven is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The population of Fair Haven overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Fair Haven, 22.82% have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Fair Haven in 2022 was $41,446, which is wealthy relative to Michigan, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $165,784 for a family of four. However, Fair Haven contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Fair Haven home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fair Haven residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fair Haven include German, Polish, English, Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Fair Haven is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
